![]() ![]() True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned. At the age of six, and at the insistence of her mother, El Saadawi underwent a clitoridectomy (also known as female genital. Her father was a civil servant, and her mother came from an upper-class Egyptian family. Nawal El Saadawi was born in the Egyptian village of Kafr Tahla in 1931. This delusion is the new prison that people inhabit today, north and south, east and west.We inhabit the age of the technology of false consciousness, the technology of hiding truths behind amiable humanistic slogans that may change from one era to another.Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. Nawal El Saadawi and Woman at Point Zero Background. The most dangerous shackles are the invisible ones, because they deceive people into believing they are free. For the technology of oppression and might without justice has become more advanced, and the fetters imposed on mind and body have become invisible. Now, although I am out of prison, I continue to live inside a prison of another sort, one without steel bars. “Writing: such has been my crime ever since I was a small child. ![]()
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